Chapter 8 - The Healing of Scars
The very next, incredibly bright, and highly sunny morning, Alejandro gently, incredibly carefully, and highly safely drove me directly to the highly secure, completely pristine, and incredibly advanced maternity hospital located exactly in the bustling city center.
We completely, entirely bypassed the incredibly crowded, highly noisy public waiting room and were immediately, highly respectfully ushered directly into a highly private, completely specialized, and entirely relaxing VIP examination suite on the top floor.
I lay incredibly nervously, completely highly anxious on the completely soft, highly sterile medical examination bed, tightly, incredibly firmly gripping Alejandro's incredibly strong, highly warm hand as the warm, highly soothing ultrasound gel was gently applied to my highly bruised, incredibly sensitive belly.
The highly gentle, incredibly experienced, and deeply compassionate doctor slowly, highly carefully moved the highly sophisticated, incredibly advanced digital transducer completely across my pale skin, incredibly carefully entirely avoiding the absolute darkest, most incredibly painful purple and yellow marks.
The highly small, incredibly quiet, and completely highly sterile examination room was suddenly, completely filled with the incredibly loud, highly rhythmic, and deeply, entirely beautiful sound of a highly strong, incredibly rapid, and completely healthy fetal heartbeat.
Our highly precious, incredibly vulnerable baby was completely, entirely, and wonderfully safe from absolutely any physical or deep emotional harm despite the highly terrifying, incredibly violent ordeal we had completely endured.
Tears of absolute, profound, and entirely overwhelming, completely pure maternal joy streamed rapidly, incredibly freely down my highly exhausted face as I completely stared in absolute awe at the incredibly bright, highly clear digital ultrasound monitor.
Alejandro gently leaned completely down and softly, incredibly highly lovingly kissed my heavily bruised, completely exhausted forehead, his incredibly sharp, highly intense military eyes completely shining with deep, completely unshed, highly emotional, and incredibly grateful tears.
Over the next few incredibly highly peaceful, completely deeply healing weeks, the incredibly dark, highly angry, and completely terrifying purple bruises on my battered body slowly, highly gradually began to completely fade away into absolutely nothingness.
They slowly, highly systematically turned into incredibly dull, completely faded shades of sickly yellow and highly pale green before completely, entirely disappearing completely from my highly sensitive, completely healed skin entirely forever.
But the incredibly deep, highly complex, and completely invisible emotional and psychological scars absolutely required much more incredibly extensive time and profound, highly dedicated, and completely unwavering patience to fully, completely, and entirely heal properly.
Alejandro officially took an incredibly extended, highly approved, and completely deeply necessary compassionate leave of absence entirely from his highly demanding, completely active, and incredibly dangerous military combat duties overseas.
He absolutely refused to completely leave my highly vulnerable side for even a single, completely fleeting, and entirely solitary second, actively, highly deeply dedicating his entire, completely focused existence exclusively to my total physical and complete mental recovery.
We spent incredibly long, highly peaceful, and completely entirely quiet afternoons simply, highly comfortably sitting completely together on the highly sunny, completely peaceful back wooden porch, completely enjoying the silent, highly absolute safety of our completely secure home.
He actively, highly patiently helped me completely, entirely process the profound, incredibly terrifying trauma, constantly, highly deeply reassuring me that I was entirely, completely safe and deeply, unconditionally, and absolutely loved beyond any highly conceivable, completely possible measure.
We slowly, highly meticulously, and entirely completely rebuilt the massive, highly essential, and entirely unbreakable foundation of deep, absolute trust and complete, highly profound security that his deeply toxic mother had violently, entirely tried to completely destroy forever.
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Every single, incredibly solitary time I completely felt a highly gentle, incredibly active, and deeply strong kick entirely from the healthy baby growing completely inside me, I felt a massive, highly undeniable surge of incredible, absolute strength and deep, completely total resilience.
I had successfully, completely survived a highly horrific, deeply terrifying, and entirely highly manipulative psychological and physical ordeal, and I incredibly miraculously emerged from the absolute, completely terrifying darkness completely, utterly, and entirely unbreakable and highly, profoundly victorious.
